macOS Tahoe’s Messy Menus

How Tahoe’s Menu Icons Undermine Usability

Software engineer Nikita Prokopov uses Apple’s 1992 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines to show how macOS 26 Tahoe’s menu icons violate fundamental usability principles—increasing visual search time and error rates, especially for users with low vision.Read original article

Experts Criticize macOS Tahoe Menu Icons

Designers argue that Apple’s new macOS Tahoe icons make menus cluttered and inconsistent, reducing clarity and usability in everyday use.

It’s hard to justify macOS Tahoe’s icons – OSnews

We’ve talked about just how bad Apple’s regular icons have become, but what about the various icons Apple now plasters all over its menus, buttons, and dialogs? They’ve gotten so, so much worse. In my opinion, Apple took on an impossible task: to add an icon to every menu item. There are just not enough good metaphors to do something like that. But even if there were, the premise itself is questionable: if everything has an icon, it doesn’t mea…

macOS Tahoe’s Messy Menus

Nikita Prokopov writing on tonsky.me about macOS Tahoe's menu icons: In my opinion, Apple took on an impossible task: to add an icon to every menu item. There are just not enough good metaphors to do something like that. But even if there were, the premise itself is questionable: if everything has an icon, it doesn't mean users will find what they are looking for faster. And even if the premise was solid, I still wish I could say: they did the b…

macOS Tahoe’s Menu Icons Are “Hard to Justify,” Critics Argue

Apple says icons help you move faster through an interface. macOS Tahoe tries to push that idea further by adding icons to almost every menu item. The result feels cluttered, distracting, and often confusing. Instead of helping you find commands faster, the icons slow you down and demand extra attention. At the core, icons exist […] The post macOS Tahoe’s Menu Icons Are “Hard to Justify,” Critics Argue appeared first on The Mac Observer.